68, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1987. House.
68, High Street
- WRENN ID
- idle-spandrel-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 68, High Street, Ridgmont
- OS grid reference
- SP 976 361
- Coordinates
- 52.01492, -0.57873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 68 is a house dating from around 1700, located on High Street in Ridgmont. It is constructed of red brick featuring a chequerwork pattern made with vitrified headers, and it has a 20th-century tiled roof. The house has a two-room plan and stands two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are two 3-light leaded windows with wooden mullions and transoms, while the first floor has two similar windows flanking a 2-light leaded casement. All windows have flat arches and appear to be in slightly enlarged openings. The central entrance features a 4-panel door. The gable ends of the house have external brick stacks and brick coping. There is a 19th-century lean-to addition at the rear.
Local climate
68, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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